Star Trek Trivia (Series and Films) - Page 22

TNG's "The Game" came on tonight, and Data is shut off by Dr. Crusher in this episode as well!!!!!1

It's the episode with Ashely Judd.

I'll just assume everyone remembers what I'm talking about.

 Scott, that's a great question. Better if you're a fan of both shows!

 The twilight Zone Companion, The Outer Limits Companion, and of course Inside Star Trek are but just a few of my favorite books. I have read all 3 numerous times!

Im thinking about your question Scott. I know Nimoy and Shatner were each on OL.

Scott-

I had a look at one of the Outer Limits episodes that's one of the answers to your trivia question tonight on the DVD set. Not the Shatner one. I had only seen bits of it before and it was a snowy picture back in the old days of analog TV.

I found that there was a fourth TOS actor in that episode! Well, guest actor and he wasn't in a regular production Star trek episode. 

I might watch the Shatner one too tonight! I thought that was a far better episode.

 Thanks Scott! 

It's pretty cool to see James Doohan in a role other then Scotty. His later work outside Star Trek was so limited, I don't think I've seen much outside of Trek. So it's refreshing to see him before Trek and not doing a Scottish accent!

It was also interesting to see Keith Andes and Skip Homeier. Peter Duryea has a small role as a college student and he's wearing glasses. But you can't miss that voice!

I remember as a kid watching Warm Heart, Cold Hands in re-runs and that was one of several episodes that stuck with me!

I have to see if I can find a good question that's hard enough, but not too much and one we haven't asked yet!

edit: I just found that there is a fifth actor who was in that OL episode, Expanding Human, he was Jason Wingreen. He portrayed Dr. Linke in The Empath! That must be some kind of a record.

 Thanks Scott! 

By the way, regarding my earlier question of naming 3 actresses who appear in OL and Star Trek. I said there was a fourth. She was in a first season episode of TOS where she plays a Doctor. And she was in the Outer Limits that co-starred Leonard Nimoy. 

Dr. Helen Noel, Marianna Hill.

 That's it Sam! She is almost unrecognizable in The Outer Limits.

She is so wholesome as the daughter. That was I, Robot and a really good one. Fun to see Nimoy so un-Spock like too!

She was also in a King Tut two-parter on Batman, and had a small role, believe it or not, in The Godfather II, as Fredo's wife.

Here's a really easy one:

1. What is the Prime Directive?

2. In what series and episode do you see the earliest form of the Prime Directive?
3. Name an instance when the Prime Directive was violated for a good reason in TOS. And when it was violated for bad reasons in TOS. I know there are quite a few, so any will be okay. In the 23rd or 24th century.
4. What is the Prime Directive also known as, or called?
5. When can the Prime Directive be rescinded?
 

Edited by Nelson Au - 9/1/09 at 3:10pm

1. Starfleet's order of noninterference with foreign cultures.
2. Enterprise. (I'm currently in the midst of watching Enterprise on DVD so this is fresh for me.) Both The Communicator and Dear Doctor have situations involving the Prime Directive. Dear Doctor has the beginnings of its description in dialogue by Archer.
3. A Taste of Armageddon is a good one, although these are subjective calls. A Private Little War may be a bad one, although with someone arming the other side, what to do? The Apple may be a bad call. It's not for a captain to decide whether a culture is developing quickly enough.
4. Starfleet General Order One.
5. At least 3 ways: When there is a danger to Starfleet or the Federation, when the culture has already been exposed to a foreign body or more advanced knowledge, and - seemingly - whenever the captain says so!

 You guys are good!

Scott, you were pretty much in line with what I had in mind. Patterns of Force is good, I was thinking of another.

Scott and Sam, you've both cited the same Enterprise episode I was thinking of, Dear Doctor, regarding when the earliest the Prime Directive was mentioned.

And Sam, you're good, you got all the questions, but the third reason one could rescind the Prime Directive. Here's a clue, it's from Voyager.

Funny, I am also watching Enterprise again. After reading that Rick Berman interview, I decided to rewatch it. I saw the entire first season, except one episode. It's very watchable. And they really did a great job on that show. So much detail and effort on the art department side. Stories for the most part were passable. I really liked the aspect of discovery they instilled, like it's all new to this crew.

The fourth season of Enterprise I loved from the beginning; I will still hold it up as one of the best seasons ever, compared with the best of DS9 or TNG. But as I have watched Enterprise again, I find I am enjoying the first couple of seasons 100% more than I did the first time. It was a good cast, and the sense of discovery was a welcome addition (and long overdue).

As for the other Prime Directive exception, I don't know, as I didn't care for Voyager and still think it is the weakest show by far, and the only one I don't own on DVD.

You go first, Scott. I have to think of a question.

Well, shoot, that was going to be my answer.

OK, i dont know the actor names, but the guy who played Darvin, the Klingon spy from The Trouble with Tribbles was also on DS9, as the same guy.
Also, the guy who was Childers, the head lithium miner from Mudd's Women was on an episode of TNG. I just dont remember what one, right now.

 Hey guys-

I've been working flat out the last few days!

There is another...the actor to portrayed Subcommander Tal in The Enterprise Incident was a Vulcan priest who marries T'Pol to her betrothed during Enterprise 4th season.

And I am also thinking of the actor who played the Kingon sidekick to Koloth in The Trouble with Tribbles. He plays the terrorist in the TNG episode where Admiral Jameson has to come out of retirement to negotiate for their release. It was Too Short a Season. That one is one of my favorite first season episodes. I read that the original plan was to have Shatner as an old Kirk coming back to pay for giving arms to his friend Tyree in A Private Little War.

There's one more I can recall, one of the Earps in Spectre of the Gun was the bald guy who first meets Sybok at the beginning of Star Trek 5. But that's a movie, not one of the series.

Regarding Enterprise, I am liking it more today. I liked it when it first aired and really wanted it to do better in the ratings. There was some bad shows, but the first year was really well done. I'm watching the second year now and it's been a little uneven, but still has some good ideas mixed with some reworkings of some TNG episodes. I think the cast was great too. Though I wish Bakula was not made to be so boy scout like when he was initially making first contacts. Golly, we're from Earth and we want to meet you. I can see why they did it this way, so he'd learn and toughen up as they encounter more races.

I also had issues with the way the Vulcans were portrayed, but they fixed all that in the last season. I like how Archer and T'Pol form a mutual respect for each other during the first year. But when she later has the relationship with Trip was okay, it also seemed to be pushing it a little.

 OK, in TOS, the color of your shirt represents the area your in. Gold=command, Blue=science, Red=engineering.

My question, how was that reworked for the other shows?

In TNG and beyond it was the color of the turtleneck that was worn under the tunic.

 Scott-

Joseph Ruskin was a huge one! I totally forgot about his appearances! He also had a really great role as a Kaos agent in Get Smart! 

Rick- In TNG, they changed the colors around: 

Command became Red (Champagne)
Engineering became Gold
Science and Medicine stayed Blue.

And IIRC, the colors for each section returned to TOS colors in Enterprise.

Why do you think certain classic creatures or figures from the original series have not appeared on the spinoffs?  Why have we not seen the salt monster again, or the horta, or Trelane?  I know all of those (well, I don't know about the salt monster) have appeared in the books, but you'd think that would be an easy way to connect to the original series.  

Well, the Salt Creature was the last of it's kind. It died at the end of The Man Trap.

The Horta only lived on Janus 6 I believe. So they'd have to revisit that planet in the spin-off's.

Trelane was punished and probably couldn't make any more planets!  The idea that Trelane is Q has never been proved 100%. As mentioned earlier, William Campbell himself felt Trelane was not the same character as Q.

The Mugatu never appeared in any of the spin-offs either.

The only claasic creature to appear on a spin-off is the Gorn. He was in Enterprise, In a Mirror Darkly. And I'm not considering the Andorians or Tellarites as creatures.

Here's a question:

Name a character in either the 22nd, 23rd or 24th Century that has driven a 20th Century automobile. See if you can name the three I have in mind.

Hey Scott!

You're really close. You are correct about Carpenter Street and Tom Paris and Kirk of course. So who drove the automobile in Carpenter Street? And for Tom Paris, it wasn't The 37's. It was another episode.

You're so close I can give you the win! But see if you can name items above.

edit: I'll have to check on Carbon Creek, but you may be right. I wasn't thinking of him, but technically, if he did drive a car, then you're 3 for 3!


Edited by Nelson Au - 9/12/09 at 12:29pm